Off topic. Read the Posting Guide. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 14, 2017 11:02:50 AM GMT+01:00, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman at gmx.net> wrote:>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:36:48 +0200 Stephen Berman ><stephen.berman at gmx.net> wrote: > >> I just built the latest R-patched from source (SVN-Revision: 73548, >Last >> Changed Date: 2017-10-12) and the build completed without a problem >but >> `make check' errored out: >> >> running code in 'reg-tests-1d.R' ...make[3]: *** >[Makefile.common:100: >> reg-tests-1d.Rout] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory '/sources/R-patched/tests' >> make[2]: *** [Makefile.common:275: test-Reg] Error 2 >> make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/R-patched/tests' >> make[1]: *** [Makefile.common:165: test-all-basics] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/R-patched/tests' >> make: *** [Makefile:239: check] Error 2 >> >> The test log reg-tests-1d.Rout.fail ends like this: >> >> > ## PR#17186 - Sys.timezone() on some Debian-derived platforms >> > (S.t <- Sys.timezone()) >> [1] NA >> > if(is.na(S.t) || !nzchar(S.t)) stop("could not get timezone") >> Error: could not get timezone >> Execution halted >> >> Is this a cause for concern and if so, what should I do? My system >is >> Linux From Scratch 8.1 (x86_64, linux 4.12.7, glibc 2.26, gcc 7.2.0). > >In the meantime I installed R and it seems to be functioning correctly. > >I reran the tests with `make -k check' and the above test failed again, >but it was the only one. I looked at the source of Sys.timezone and on >my system as currently configured (TZ is not set, there is no >/etc/timezone file) this function always returns NA, so the test cannot >succeed. I built and configured my system following the Linux From >Scratch instructions, so (unless I made a mistake somewhere) it seems >this test is irrelevant for that system. If this conclusion is >correct, >maybe the test can be skipped if /etc/timezone does not exist, or at >least not error out. Or does that mean my system is somehow >misconfigured? > >Steve Berman > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:49:16 +0100 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:> Off topic. Read the Posting Guide.I did do that before posting; the choice seemed to be between R-help ("intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable about programming") and R-devel ("for questions and discussion about R development and programming"). Obviously I need to install R before I can use it, and in my case I had to build it before I could install it, and running the tests is recommended, and that's where the issue arose; I couldn't tell if this was due to a bug in R or something on my end, i.e., I needed help, so that's why I asked here. If you think R-devel is the right address, I'll ask there. Steve Berman
Your confusion would be alleviated if you read the whole thing. E.g. Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers should rather go to R-devel than R-help. [...] For example, questions involving C, C++, etc. code should go to R-devel. It is unfortunate that the errors involved in installing R on some platforms involve understanding C, but it is a reality that goes with such broad platform support and parsing through C compiler errors is not what this list is about. In addition, anything you do with a patched or development version of R bears the risk of incomplete support, discussion of which belongs on R-devel. Patched versions are intended to fix specific bugs, so if you are not immediately inconvenienced by such a bug or are not prepared to help fix or at least troubleshoot problems then you probably should not be installing those versions. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 14, 2017 12:07:37 PM GMT+01:00, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman at gmx.net> wrote:>On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:49:16 +0100 Jeff Newmiller ><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > >> Off topic. Read the Posting Guide. > >I did do that before posting; the choice seemed to be between R-help >("intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve >problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable >about programming") and R-devel ("for questions and discussion about R >development and programming"). Obviously I need to install R before I >can use it, and in my case I had to build it before I could install it, >and running the tests is recommended, and that's where the issue arose; >I couldn't tell if this was due to a bug in R or something on my end, >i.e., I needed help, so that's why I asked here. If you think R-devel >is the right address, I'll ask there. > >Steve Berman